Improvement in bottle-stoppers



vi-it gime @anni @twine WILLIAM II. GIBBs, oF CINCINNATI, v'otr-Io.

Letters Patent No. 93,296, dated August 3, 1869. y

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOHPPERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To lwhom. it may concern): i

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H.G1BBs, of Cincin l nati,- H-amil-ton county, Ohio, have' invented- -anevf-and 'useful Improved Bottle-Stopper; and I hereby declare v the following to be 'a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication. p

This is an improvement in the class of bottle-stoppers, having an', India-rubber plug or gasket, and consists in the interpositiou of a cork below the said plug,

, so as to prevent any contact of the latter with the contents of the bottle.

Figure is a perspective view of a stopper embodying my improvement.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the metallic portion.

Figure 3 is a vertical section at right angles to fig.v

2, showing the stopper in position in the bott-le.

' A 4is a metallic button, having two customary yokes' B B', which pass down onl each side of the bottles' Vneck, and may be secured by a Wire, C, in the usual` Depending rigidly from the button isa shank, D,

which penetrates a plug or gasket, E, of India rubber, and enters a cork, F.

The-shank--Dhas au eye, d', torreeeivev a small key or pin, G, which, being pushed, point foremost, into the cork, and through the eye d in the shank, is embedded'in the former, as seen in g. 2, and serves to 'hold the cork and gasket in place.

The metallic button A being pressed and held down in any usual or desired Way, the gasket E becomes pressed into the mouth of the bottle, as ingiig. 2, and effectually closes the same, While the corkserves to isolate the rubber from the contents, so as'fto avoidl 

